Bloody Fight In Amemfi NPP …Members Chased With Cutlasses, Office Vandalized

The Police is investigating circumstances under which the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for Amenfi East, Nana Kweku Badu, reportedly led a team of attackers to vandalize the party office, destroy property and violently attacked party supporters who were jubilating their electoral victory.

The attack was unleashed on NPP members who were jubilating the win of the party’s presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo at the forecourt of the constituency party office and reports say the music equipment and speaker boxes with which the party members were playing music and dancing to it were destroyed and set ablaze.

The party members have accused the party chairman, Badu and the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Helena Ama Appiah, of being behind the disturbances.

The aggrieved party members organized a press conference in the constituency last Thursday to state their case.

They narrated that during the party’s parliamentary primaries, the incumbent MP lost to a new person by name Edward Amo- Acquah.

This reportedly brought cracks in the party leadership and the sour grape losers started to campaign in favour of the candidate contesting on the ticket of the opposing political party.

The angry youth wing, at the press conference, alleged, without evidence that the party chairman, the MCE and the MP who lost the primaries teamed up to campaign against the new candidate and this led to the party not winning.

The last straw that broke the camel’s back and sparked the agitations was when the party supporters were attacked and beaten up at the party office when they converged there to jubilate Nana Addo’s win.  

“We bring to the notice of party hierarchy and the general public, the behavior of the Municipal Chief Executive for Amemfi East, Helena Ama Appiah and the constituency Chairman, nana Kweku Badu, the constituency chairman and some constituency executives that led to the defeat the party suffered in the just ended elections.

 “…A night before the elections, these party leaders went about sharing money to people to vote against the NPP parliamentary candidate that this really worked.

“The most painful part of all this was that after the presidential elections results was declared by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, the youth of the party took to the streets of Wassa Akropong to jubilate and finally converged at the party’s office.

“The party chairman followed the youth to the party’s office and destroyed the sound system that was being used for entertainment, beat up the youth organizer at Saiman. The Youth Organizer was the operator of the sound system. The case has been reported to the police waiting investigation”, the angry party members noted in a press statement read by one Clement Amo.

They alleged further connivance between the party leadership and the opposing party.

The three accused persons have since denied the allegations.